Intel Xeon Silver 4114 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Compare Intel Xeon Scalable 10 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6360 points

6632 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5037 points

7128 points

41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6882 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

6506 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7209 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

6504 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

115.19 points

188.94 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5279 points

11628 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

864 points

2268 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

60% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

1.38 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4.9 GHz

63% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

85 W

35 W

142% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

139% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

232nd of 1,089

214th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon Scalable

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon Silver 4114 vs Core i9-12900T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the Xeon Silver 4114 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4114 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon Silver 4114 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4114. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Silver 4114 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Xeon Silver 4114 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon Silver 4114 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.